Download or read book Lawyers Then and Now written by Keith Mason and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, loosely modelled on Robert Megarry's Miscellany at Law, presents thematically true stories drawn from the spread of Australian legal history and case law. Discover:who was Australia's youngest judgeinstances of extreme rudeness in court and between judgeswhich judges served the longest and shortest terms in officethe barriers facing women who wanted to practise law and when they were scaledwhich judge was tried and acquitted of murder and which law officer was convicted of murder and sentenced to hangand, learn about humor of all sorts in the profession as well as amusing aspects of Australian law's interface with religion, art, sport, gambling and literature.Lawyers Then and Now focuses on the quirkiness of the law and the humanity of the people of the law. Highlighted are the recurring constancies and changes in our legal culture with concentration on aspects of legal culture that are accepted in one generation and condemned in another.The book's final chapter Fallible All recapitulates the theme that lawyers are far from perfect even as (most of them) struggle to perform at their best. Old Law, New Law: A Second Australian Legal Miscellany follows this volume. Please click to view details.